Psycho Key is back from their Summer Tour '06. It was their first time touring
with their new multimedia video show, and they had a blast. Psycho Key headlined
at some fantastic festivals across Germany, France and Switzerland. The band
is really excited to get back on the road.

Check out
the new video section to see a demo of their video show "Harvest".
You will see a few tracks from their show in Geneva, enjoy!

The band
is now in St. Lucia recording a new album that will become the soundtrack
of their musical movie "Harvest".
You can now order the live DVD of their 1st video show (Spirits of India)
that was filmed in Martinique at the Jardin des Papillons. Contact the band
for more info. Also, a live DVD of the latest video show "Harvest" is
due for December.

Psycho Key is planning a tour in the U.S in the spring '07 and Europe for
the summer '07.

sycho key
is a band that mixes rock and world influances such as indian sitar, reggae,
70' rock etc ...

the band
is originaly from Toronto but is now based in St Lucia in the CaribbeanLe
Reservoir Club and Geneva City Music Festival, as well as club gigs throughout
Germany, France,
Switzerland, St. Lucia, India and Turkey. The album Jetty was released on April
18th, 2004 through
TLG Prime and distributed with Edel Contraire, Germany. The album is receiving
radio play throughout
Germany and Psycho Key recently returned to Germany to complete a one month
tour in support of
the release.

“So
refreshing to hear rock as original as yours, so rare to find a band lyrically
and musically refreshing
these days.” Damon Homer, Jointpop (Trinidad)

"From
bone-crushing metal, they segued into cool reggae scratches and jazzy, undefineable
musical pieces
that asked you to just listen for a moment." The St. Lucia Mirror, Jason
Sifflet

All members now spend their time in the hills of St. Lucia. Kyra Jolliet,
(lead singer) is Canadian born with
Russian roots, Nicolas Jolliet, (sitarist, guitarist) has traveled around the
world hunting stringed instruments
(sitar, oud, esraj, surbahar), Clint Adjodha (bass, vocals) was born in Barbados,
raised in Canada, and is now
living his Indian heritage, and Azanaya (drums, vocals) is a Rasta from his
St. Lucian mountain community.
Psycho Key members use their different cultural backgrounds to make their own
musical world and create
an incredible realization of artistic vision and repertoire.

."Psycho Key is able to invent their own sound by mixing ancient, modern
and multicultural musical influences in their own brilliant way” Wolfgang
Grabenau.

Psycho Key was born on a beach in the Dominican Republic in 1996 and has become
an extraordinary and
unique collaboration of individuals influenced by the world at large.

The music of Psycho Key is rock vocals, reggae beats, Indian sitars, wailing
guitars, and a grooved bottom-end thrown in a blender, mixed on high to gather
a new world sound. Psycho Key has released four albums since being together:
Wicked Dream, La La Land , Autrement dit and Jetty. Psycho Key is in the studio
now mixing their next album Sweed.

“Once they started, it was clear they had been building a kind of music
that is rare, if not unique.” The St. Lucia Mirror, Jason Sifflet

Psycho
Key toured North America with their self-released Wicked Dream: major stops
being Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Portland and Seattle. With Canadian distribution company The Label Group,
La La Land was released world-wide, charted in North America, garnered press,
and was toured in Europe twice in support of the release. The 2003 La La
Land tour included the Montreux Jazz Festival, Paris’

A completely
normal Bamberger Friday during a completely normal Bamberger week, which
basically means that nothing really exciting is happening on the music scene.
Under normal conditions, I wouldn‚t go out of my way to
hit the musical desert of Bamberg, if it hadn‚t been for the fact that
a very special innovative band was performing.

When Psycho Key started to play, a unique, family-like spirit developed,
in which the band did not just perform, but we actually had the feeling that
Psycho Key was playing exclusively for us - an ingenious feeling! Psycho Key
played some old songs and some new. The show included classics from La La Land
- Zadig, She was a wish and Darling, songs from Jetty- the title song, Jewel
of the Night and Wonder Woman, and a few songs from their latest album Sweed,
which will be released in the fall. It was the perfect hit list for a fan!

What is so magical about the music of Psycho key is their mixture: the memorable
voice of Kyra Levy, the Reggae-loaded beats of Azanaya and Clint Adjodha, and
the exotic sounds of the Sitar player and guitarist Nicolas Jolliet. And Psycho
Key transfers their spirit, which they have already managed to spread through
their recordings.

The females
in the audience felt directly involved when Kyra announced between two songs
that „this next song is for the ladies in the house" and
then belted out in acapella "I wanna fly so high". Dancing to the
Reggae sounds was even twice as much fun!

For those
who are attentive to the lyrics, one can only react enthusiastically when
the first line of "She was a wish" is
told ingeniously in poem form, before the song begins. This transforms the
song into a true experience.

Psycho Key goes beyond the music and maintains a strong connection between
the band and the audience throughout the show.
I am very anxious to get my hands on the new Psycho Key CD, and hope that they
will come back to Germany!

Writer: (Meph) treatment: (spy)

First album: WICKED DREAMYear: 1998

This is
Psycho Key's very first album. It was recorded in Toronto, in their first
studio. At the time, Psycho Key was only a duo (guitar/voice). This album
is primarily "pop rock", although we can feel the first "world" influences
through the sounds of the various percussions, the classical and acoustic guitars,
and the odd time signatures. Most of the songs were written in the Dominican
Republic where Kyra and Nico met and created Psycho Key.

This album
was recorded at "The Cozy Studio" in
Toronto in 1999.
Clint Adjodha (bass) joined the band. The sitar made its first appearance
in this riffy rock album, giving La La Land a world colour, even though it
remains a very rock "a la Led Zep" album. Songs like Zadig and
Golden Jail trigger the growth of the band.

Lyrically,
the album is very 'fairy tale oriented', using old stories like Voltaire's "Zadig",
and new tales like She Was A Wish and Golden Jail.

La La Land was released in Canada in the year 2000, and worldwide.in 2001
with United One Records (Berlin).

Psycho Key's original goal was to invent their own style by mixing the essence
of the early 70's rock with reggae grooves and indian music. After 5 albums
they finally got the perfect mix. In the song Sweed you will have a driving
reggae/dub rhythm with sitar riffs that flow into an apocalyptic rock chorus.
In Regal, you have that slow reggae feel with the 60's psychedelic frame. Melted
into all of this are the sounds of the Surbahar (ancient sitar), the saz and
the oud. The outcome of Sweed is a boiling pot of moving, grooving, hypnotic,
entrancing music.

This album was recorded in the fall of 2003 in St. Lucia.

Third album: JETTY
Year: 2002/2004

This is
the first album recorded in St. Lucia. (www.theplaceonearth.com). Azanaya
(drummer) joined the band and influenced Psycho Key with his reggae background
(check "Le Surdoue"). In Jetty, Psycho Key incorporates
these reggae influences with a lot more of the sitar. Overall, Jetty is more
of a "world" album and has a more laid back vibe than the previous
albums.

Jetty was released for the first time in the winter of 2002. It was later
re-worked, re-mixed and then re-released by Edelcontraire in Germany, 2004.

This is Psycho Key's first french album. Basically we took the best out of
the 4 other albums, re-wrote the songs in french (with the help of Thomas Passedouet
and Nathalie Vendeman from Paris), added a few new french tracks, et voila...a
very versatile album...in french.

The FULL STORY by Nico
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Psycho Key is already 9 years old!!! We are 4 musicians in the band. Aza Naya
plays the drums, Clint Adjodha plays the bass, and does the back up vocals
(when he feels like it), Kyra Jolliet (Levy) is our singer, and I play the
guitar and sitar.

In February ‘96, Kyra got a job working at Club Med in the Dominican
Republic. After being an actress on the TV show “Degrassi High” for
4 years in her teens, and acting and singing in different plays in Toronto,
she wanted to travel and find “her thing”. After Dominican Republic,
she planned to go to Spain and teach English as a second language so she could
travel around the world. At the time, she was 23 and ready to live a full life
of adventures. She was ready for anything exciting to come, only certain deep
down that she wanted to do something with music, singing or acting.
So was I...

In Geneva
(Switzerland) where I grew up, I had been teaching guitar in a music school
for a few years now..I had a few bands going, we would play gigs here and
there, but the place was becoming too small for a young musician that wanted
to spend his life at it. I was 22 and was dreaming of traveling too... I
wanted to go to a big city, have a band and become a “touring” musician.
I could feel in my guts that the world was a vast exciting place and that I
had to go. My fantasy was to take a trip somewhere and be able to NOT come
back to the old Geneva. After traveling in southeast Asia, I went to Dominican
Republic with a friend to do some windsurfing in the waves of Cabarete.

One day I was sitting with my guitar in front of the bungalow just playing
away, enjoying the nice breeze that comes at sunset. My life was about to change
forever and for the best, yet I had no idea, just sipping at my beer daydreaming,
when a nice chick came up to me. It is amazing how life can drag on for years
with nothing happening and suddenly in a second it takes the big turn. You
just have to look for it, be open to it, take risks, travel, cut your routine,
and here it comes. Kyra showed up.

“Hey I’m Kyra, I can sing, you wanna jam? So right then and there
we wrote our first song and became friends. We were lucky that Kyra could speak
French, cause I couldn’t speak any English.

Cabarete
was a typical “caribbean” paradise,
a nice beach, a bunch of cool little bars, lots of young surfers, the sun,
the stars at night etc... We had a lot of fun, and since there was not much
wind for the windsurf, we would write songs all day long. We were so happy
in that holiday mood, we were inspired, and after a couple of weeks we had
9 good songs.

Being far
away from home and having a good time, I felt that I didn’t
want to go back home, we wanted that good time to last forever. Maybe I could
actually live my fantasy of not going back home? One day we took a motorbike
trip in the mountains and that night I told Kyra that I didn’t want to
go home, that I wanted to go to Vancouver and try the music scene there. An
old friend of mine had been there and had told me how cool it was... I knew
Kyra was supposed to go to Spain to become an English teacher. But the next
day she told me that she didn’t have to go to Spain right away, she could
change her plans too... Playing as a duo (guitar voice) in the little bars
around Cabarete, we didn’t want to let our new music go. So we decided
to go to Canada and try to make music. The problem was that I didn’t
speak English, had maybe a 1000 dollars left of savings, no jobs, I would have
to quit my good job in Geneva, leave my bands and my girlfriend...my life...but
we were young, we were in la la land, so we went for it...not that we weren’t
scared.

TORONTO
April ‘96
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So here we are in Toronto. Kyra lives at her parents’ house, and I have
a student room in a student apartment on Spadina by the university. I get a
job as a gardener and learn my first English on the spot: rake, lawn, clean,
sweep...I got my 8 track recorder shipped from Switzerland and we started to
record a demo and play in the bars around Toronto as a duo. Kyra used to work
at Much Music before (she worked backstage at an Our Lady Peace/ Van Halen
concert and did various other jobs) and she had contacts, so we tried to pitch
our demo. Being the first time in a big north american city, I am amazed by
the number of places that have live music, the big music stores, and the cheeseburgers.
I am sure that we would be touring with a band within 3 weeks... A few months
pass by and by the summer we get

tired of
Toronto. Things didn’t go exactly as we had planned, we are
not rock stars yet, we didn’t find musicians and we just want to travel
again, that’s what we love the most. One night we show up at a gig to
discover that the bar had closed... This was a sign. That night Kyra’s
friend Matt showed up too with other friends. And Matt proposed to record a
demo for us and burn a CD (in ‘96 it was just the beginning of “homemade
CD’s”). With our first CD demo in our hand, we decided we would
take Kyra’s car, puts our bags and guitars in it and drive to the other
end of Canada... Vancouver.
One of Kyra’s contacts put us in touch with a Manager/Booker that could
help us there.

So we go,
we do a 12 day road trip across Canada, playing wherever we can, camping
at night... Kyra and I are obviously in love, but nothing concrete had been
said up to this point. I knew the golden rule: never sleep with you singer!!
But you can’t
stop life...things were so intense that sometimes we even had to do little
stops on the side roads, until the day in Alberta when an angry farmer showed
up with his rifle and two of his pals telling us we were on private property!
Throughout the trip we kept on writing songs...Missing Home/Good People/Helpless
Man etc...

Vancouver
August ‘96
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Once we arrive in Vancouver, we find a room the first day and start to look
for jobs...not easy. Kyra works selling paintball games in the food court of
shopping malls. I work in a “hand carwash” and sometimes I work
with our alcoholic neighbor fixing drywall painting etc... We start to play
the local scene, still as a duo. And we look for a drummer, we try lots, none
work. We found one that could be good, played a few gigs, but then he wasn’t
serious enough. It is so hard to find a drummer...

Dave, a
good friend of Kyra’s, came from Toronto to visit us. He is
a musician too. He tells me that it is now possible to record music on computers.
If you have a Mac you can have up to 16 tracks. Dave and I did some research
in the music stores, and we learned that it is possible to have a descent home
studio for 5000 bucks. The technology is very new and everyone has a different
story...nevertheless I decided to start studying sound engineering and recording.
I got books and began to read, that’s when I really started to learn
English.

By the
winter we were completely broke and very depressed (Vancouver is just rain
rain rain in the fall). So Kyra manages to get us a job at the Club Med in
St. Lucia in the Caribbean. Since she had worked at the one in Dominican,
she contacted the lady and the following week we were on a plane. We were
saved!!! The night we arrived in St. Lucia, we went to the pool by the hotel.
It was late, the stars were out, the tourists in bed, the crickets very loud...
Leaning on my back floating in the pool, looking up I was thinking about
the last year, how fast it went, and wondered where the hell we would be
in a year, in 5? So far the adventure we started in Dominican was not ready
to stop!!!! My biggest fear was to have to go back home before a year had
past..but I didn’t,
even though I was homesick sometimes and missing my friends a lot. WE MADE
IT!!! ONE YEAR!!!

During the month at Club Med we met Thomas Passedouet. He was a successful
hairstylist from Paris. We became friends and he also became a fan. He shipped
100 of our demos to France and said he would help us with our music there.
Maybe we could go play there? We will meet Thomas again later...

Coming back to Vancouver, we realized that we wanted to move somewhere else.
We also have the travel bug big time...so we pack the car again and we head
for the States....

United
States Spring ‘97
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We made a bed in the rear of the car, I have to sleep with my legs folded,
but after a week I was used to it... We start with Seattle, then Portland,
then San Francisco. We would just reach a town and see where we could play,
then play and move on. We met lots of interesting people. Then we reached L.A.
Kyra had friends there, other actors from ‘Degrassi High’. We have
a lot of fun, partying up the town and playing some gigs, still as duo. Then
we started to go towards Toronto from L.A., so we went through the Death Valley,
Vegas, Grand Canyon (where we wrote the song Canyon), Arizona etc...Town after
town, we eventually ended up in Toronto. And it was time to start a life again...difficult
to settle down after such an adventure on the road. WE LOVE THE ROAD!